"You can plea to this crime and be sentence to 2 years in prison, or we'll charge you with a felony instead of a misdemeanor and several extra things to drive y

"You can plea to this crime and be sentence to 2 years in prison, or we'll charge you with a felony instead of a misdemeanor and several extra things to drive your minimum sentence up to 5 years." I would be much more okay with plea bargains if the system required that the prosecutor only allow you to plea to charges they had filed against you, and refused to allow them to file more serious versions of the charges once they offered a bargain, ie, that the bargain was exclusively setting the terms of the sentence for the crimes you were being charged for in exchange for not forcing a trial to determine your guilt.